GIOVANNI SEGANTINI

Giovanni Segantini (185899) was an Italian-born Swiss painter who created his work, primarily landscapes, largely in and around his home in the Swiss Alps. As an artist, Segantini is a difficult figure to place. While some of his works can be described as utilizi ng the pointillist or divisionist techniques made popular by Seurat and Van Gogh, Segantinis style of painting shares a closer affi nity with symbolism. Later in his career, he has also begun to be acknowledged as an early convert to European modernism, his work p oised at t...[Read more]